Junio C Hamano wrote: > Luben Tuikov <ltuikov@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> Questions: >> >> What is the reasonining of defining branch.<name>.merge to point >> to the "remote's setup"? > > See list archives. > > Because you are not required to use remote tracking branches. > By the way, I think we allow the name of the remote tracking > branch as well, but we do not advertise it -- always using > remote's name consistently is much less confusing. If remember correctly there were added some magic which makes git search on pull first remote branches (to allow to pull without tracking branches), then tracking branches. This I think supercedes alternate proposal of using branch.<name>.mergeLocal. -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html